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Year 5 · Maths

Add Subtract Mentally

Year 5 learners practise mental addition and subtraction strategies.

The activities include Adding Numbers: Is the Answer Odd or Even?, Use Mental Methods to Solve Subtraction Problems, Work Out the Missing Number in Additions in Your Head. The checked support below includes video, teaching, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Adding Numbers: Is the Answer Odd or Even?
  • Use Mental Methods to Solve Subtraction Problems
  • Work Out the Missing Number in Additions in Your Head

Checked learning resources

  • Mental Strategies for Addition and Subtraction | KS2 Maths Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Mental Strategies for Addition and Subtraction | KS2 Maths Concept Video is a direct, playable KS2 maths explanation selected for the exact Year 5 activity context: In this worksheet, students add together two numbers an

  • Adding and subtracting

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Free KS2 explanation and worked examples support the exact Year 5 skill in "Adding Numbers: Is the Answer Odd or Even?": In this worksheet, students add together two numbers and decide whether the answer is an odd or eve

  • Planit Y5 Addition And Subtraction Lesson Pack Mental Calculations 2

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Planit Y5 Addition And Subtraction Lesson Pack Mental Calculations 2 provides Year 5 modelled teaching and pupil practice for the exact activity method: In this worksheet, students add together two numbers and decide whe